Quotes About Probability

So the second law is merely probabilistic. Statistically, everything tends toward maximum entropy.

God plays dice with the universe," is Ford's answer to Einstein's famous question. "But they're loaded dice. And the main objective of physics now is to find out by what rules were they loaded and how can we use them for our own ends.

Thought interferes with the probability of events, and, in the long run therefore, with entropy. —David L. Watson

The second law, then, is the tendency of the universe to flow from less likely (orderly) to more likely (disorderly) macrostates.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.

Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.

At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.

Taking consistent action is guaranteed to increase the probability of your success.

Being ninety nine percent sure opens for a possibility that you might be a hundred percent wrong.

Being ninty nine percent sure opens for a possibility that you might be a hundred percent wrong.

I bet sports all the time and very rarely get in a spot where someone offered me even money on something I'm going to get right five out of six times.

Premium hands are simply few and far between when large pots are at stake.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

The fact that we do not have absolute certainty in regard to any human conclusions does not mean that the task of inquiry is fruitless. We must, it is true, always proceed on the basis of probability, but to have probability is to have something. What we seek in any realm of human thought is not absolute certainty, for that is denied us as men, but rather the more modest path of those who find dependable ways of discerning different degrees of probability.

Because the exponential distribution is so mathematically convenient, it is tempting to use it even when it is not appropriate.

I was told that there's near on a million to one chance that I would be able to have children.

There are no guarantees. If you spent money, it's no guarantee you win stuff.

Teniendo en cuenta que la probabilidad de morir cada vez que se sube a un automóvil es de uno entre seis mil, tanto el embarazo como el aborto puede considerarse muy seguros.